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[claritycycler]

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[j44ke]

As the snow was leaving ...

[guido]

[Mabouya]

We’ve had feeders in our yard forever but this is the first year for orioles and man are they bright...at least he is. They’ve been on the suet feeder and after I read that they like fruit and couldn’t figure it out, I noticed that the suet has berries in it. There you go...those buggers are smart.

You must live in an American League city. I'm in St Louis and get tons of cardinals.


Sunflower seed seems to work best for me. The whole gang (including the squirrels) go through about 30 pounds a week.

Just last night I ordered one of these to hopefully fend off the furry-tailed rats:

https://bromebirdcare.com/squirrelbuster-plus/

[bironi]

You must live in an American League city. I'm in St Louis and get tons of cardinals.


Sunflower seed seems to work best for me. The whole gang (including the squirrels) go through about 30 pounds a week.

Just last night I ordered one of these to hopefully fend off the furry-tailed rats:

https://bromebirdcare.com/squirrelbuster-plus/

Might you show a larger perspective so we may determine the squirrel's attack options?
Thanks.

[rwsaunders]

You must live in an American League city. I'm in St Louis and get tons of cardinals.


Sunflower seed seems to work best for me. The whole gang (including the squirrels) go through about 30 pounds a week.

Just last night I ordered one of these to hopefully fend off the furry-tailed rats:

https://bromebirdcare.com/squirrelbuster-plus/

I have that same feeder and it works as advertised. However, it still takes some effort to reduce the squirrel population and our resident red-tailed hawk and an air rifle work well together.

[Mabouya]

Might you show a larger perspective so we may determine the squirrel's attack options?
Thanks.

Ha - that's not mine ( I don't have it yet).

They're able to hop onto the feeder because of deficiency in my defenses. I have a "coolie hat" baffle, but because it rests in part on a large cylindrical baffle it doesn't pivot as it should, so they're able to jump from a bush, bounce off the coolie hat, and ricochet onto one of the two feeders (that are on a shepherd's crook).

[Mabouya]

I have that same feeder and it works as advertised. However, it still takes some effort to reduce the squirrel population and our resident red-tailed hawk and an air rifle work well together.

Airsoft rifle may be my next recourse if the Brome doesn't work. I have a 10/22 but that would kill them, and I don't want to do that.

[bironi]

Airsoft rifle may be my next recourse if the Brome doesn't work. I have a 10/22 but that would kill them, and I don't want to do that.

Mine are hung from shepherd hooks as well, but I have them in a place so the squirrely ones cannot leap from a nearby object.
They have to climb the vertical pole.
I lather up the pole with Vaseline, if your have the spiral type it's quite fun to watch them slide down in a slow motion spin.
Just a thought.
Everyone has there own yard house layout.
That does look like a nice feeder.
Bb-guns or air soft are not a solution unless you have a rifle hole from inside your house.
The guns I used would only scare them away, but for a short time.
The critters that eat the most are often the most adapted to human behavior.

[mnoble485]

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[guido]

We’ve had feeders in our yard forever but this is the first year for orioles and man are they bright...at least he is. They’ve been on the suet feeder and after I read that they like fruit and couldn’t figure it out, I noticed that the suet has berries in it. There you go...those buggers are smart.

RW -- for Orioles we have our best luck with straight grape jelly (the cheap stuff is fine...). We just heap it on an oriole feeder, filling the well in the center and the little dips on the outside edge. Hugely more effective than orange halves and colored sugar water formulas... We have a steady flow of Orioles all day long...

[rwsaunders]

Still puzzling at my house.

[mnoble485]

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I would like a bike in this color. I brought this magnolia tree home in the back of my Yukon. It is over 20’ tall now.

Mike

[Mabouya]

Still puzzling at my house.

Georges Perec on Puzzles | The Nation

Perec writes: “The art of jigsaw puzzling begins with wooden puzzles cut by hand, whose maker undertakes to ask himself all the questions the player will have to solve, and, instead of allowing chance to cover his tracks, aims to replace it with cunning, trickery, and subterfuge. All the elements occurring in the image to be reassembled—this armchair covered in gold brocade, that three-pointed black hat with its rather ruined black plume, or that silver-braided bright yellow livery—serve by design as points of departure for trails that lead to false information.… From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzle-maker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.”

[claritycycler]

Still puzzling at my house.

In one way or another I think most of us are.

[caleb]

[SpeedyChix]

[guido]

Nice! We just miss the normal range of Red Head's. Every once and a while there is a report and all the birders go scurrying!

[rwsaunders]

[SpeedyChix]

Nice! We just miss the normal range of Red Head's. Every once and a while there is a report and all the birders go scurrying!

This is the first year we've had more than an occasional glimpse of one passing by. Eastern Towhee is hanging around as well. It's been a good spring for birds with orioles, grosbeaks, and all manner of woodpeckers (Downy, Hairy, Red Breasted, Flicker, Pileated and now Red-Headed woodpeckers). The Indigo Bunting remains a quick glimpse while it is passing through. Hummingbirds have been a bit thin so far but spring seems to be on an extended arrival plan. It's been wet and cool here.